Petition to Jimbo Wales:

We have recently observed two controversies related to your actions. Both of them were caused by the fact that you did not follow the community-established procedures and policies. Both of them were not properly discussed within the community before they were carried out.

While many of us trust your judgement on such matters, we remind you that volunteers are people who donate their time and skills to Wikimedia projects and should be treated respectfully. Several volunteers left after your actions, and this cleary indicates that there is a problem in communication between you and the community.

We therefore ask you to respect the processes and policies established by our community. All major actions should be discussed before they are carried out, especially those related to blocks and content deletion. We understand that sometimes your intervention is required to protect the Foundation or its users; in such cases, they should be clearly indicated as such and it should be clearly explained why is it an emergency. When the matter is not urgent anymore, the community should be allowed to review these actions.

1. vvv ^t 21:39, 7 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]
2. --Darwinius 21:50, 7 May 2010 (UTC) Agreed.[reply ]
3. Fully agreed. 555 21:52, 7 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]
4. Agreed. --Millosh 21:53, 7 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]
5. Agreed TheDJ 21:58, 7 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]
6. Agreed. Alecmconroy 22:09, 7 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]
7. Agreed W00pzor 22:28, 7 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]
8. Agreed. Trycatch 22:30, 7 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]
9. Olaf 22:31, 7 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]
10. Fully agree Niels 23:31, 7 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]
11. Diupwijk 23:33, 7 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]
12. Kyro 23:38, 7 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]
13. --ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 00:01, 8 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

Stop pretending you are just another ordinary admin. Most local projects have not elected you. Rather, you are the powerful hand of God. If you're going to exercise control over the projects you founded and manage, fine, do so. But most of the time you act like local projects are free to use consensus and ignore you. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot promote consensus and then break it. Explicitly acknowledge your hand of God role so that people do not have the illusion they can discuss or petition a way to reverse you.

1. -Nard the Bard 22:11, 7 May 2010 (UTC) [reply ]